University Situation: Final Exam

[Aimster]

Girl has a final exam coming up for a class.
Syllabus doesn't mention the day/time for the final.
Girl emails the professor asking him what day the final is. Professor emails back saying the final is on the 10th.
Girl buys a non-refundable ticket back home for the 11th.
Girl shows up on the 10th (along with 3 others) and nobody else showed up.

Final is on the 13th.
Girl went to every class. Other students who didn't show up who knew about the final being on the 13th emailed him later on. He never sent out a mass email to inform the class. Students were contacting him.


Should the school pay? Should the professor give her a grade based on everything submitted so far without the final? Is she SOL?

Discuss please.

 

[Random Variable]

In order to answer your question I would first need to see pictures of her without any clothes on.

 

[dbk]

SOL for now.
Tell her to go to the dean or have her parents call up the dean and bitch...

 

[dlx22]

is the prof tenured? if so she's probably shit out of luck...

 

[TallBill]

Did anyone at any point try to contact the school or professor? If it came down to failing the class, I'd eat the ticket because paying for the class again will take more time and money.

 

[dbk]

How did the other students know the final had been switched to the 13th? Your GF must have missed something (along with those 3 others). Is she sure he didn't send out a mass email about the switch?

 

[Cabages]

Originally posted by: Aimster
Should the professor give her a grade based on everything submitted so far without the final?

This

 

[Leros]

I'd say she's just going to have to suck it up. She knows when the exam is and she would be willingly skipping it at this point.

 

[axelfox]

Originally posted by: dbk
SOL for now.
Tell her to go to the dean or have her parents call up the dean and bitch...

This with documentation in hand.

 

[vshah]

prof should let her take the exam early

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: Leros
I'd say she's just going to have to suck it up. She knows when the exam is and she would be willingly skipping it at this point.

School shouldn't pay for shit. Prof should allow the students whom he misinformed to take the final on a later date.

It's kinda iffy in general. Sure the prof misinformed her, but she had to have had other sources of information. I don't know a single University that doesn't provide students with a finals schedule independent of the prof. I looked up mine a couple of weeks ago.

 

[CycloWizard]

In my experience, universities publish the schedule for finals with the course listing the previous semester. It's not the professor's job to know when the final is ahead of time, though he probably should have told her to look it up rather than giving her misinformation. And yes, I managed to walk in to a final with 35 minutes to go (2.5 hour exam) because I didn't check the schedule and the final started before the regular class time. This was for a grad course. I took my medicine and finished the exam in 35 minutes. I still got an A in the course, so maybe the professor took pity on me. In either case, I knew it was my mistake and I would hardly expect the school or the professor to pay for it in any way.

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: CycloWizard
In my experience, universities publish the schedule for finals with the course listing the previous semester. It's not the professor's job to know when the final is ahead of time, though he probably should have told her to look it up rather than giving her misinformation. And yes, I managed to walk in to a final with 35 minutes to go (2.5 hour exam) because I didn't check the schedule and the final started before the regular class time. This was for a grad course. I took my medicine and finished the exam in 35 minutes. I still got an A in the course, so maybe the professor took pity on me. In either case, I knew it was my mistake and I would hardly expect the school or the professor to pay for it in any way.

Same with my experience. Final exam dates are scheduled with the corresponding section for a class and available for all to see.
Usually the professor would let people pick one of the scheduled dates to fit their own exam schedule (e.g. having 3 in 2 days and so forth).

 

[JC86]

Typically the finals schedule is posted along with the course listings for class registration the previous semester/quarter. Plus, I have a hard time believing she went to every class because in four years of undergrad work, the finals date/time is mentioned at least 5-10 times before the actual final and even more if there is a discussion class for that course as well.

That being said, reschedule the ticket and pay the $100 fine and take the final. . . . not worth failing a class and spending more time retaking it down the road.

 

[silverpig]

So was the final schedule posted somewhere else, or is the prof the only source of information for the schedule?

If it was posted elsewhere and she asked the prof anyways and got the 10th, then it's her dumbass fault and the prof made a simple mistake.

If however, the prof sets the date, it wasn't listed anywhere else, and he said the 10th, then changed his mind, well she has a bit of a case.

 

[frostedflakes]

The final exam schedule is not posted on the school's website?

 

[Shawn]

How could someone not know when their exam is? I can find out when the finals are for a class on the first day.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: JC86
Typically the finals schedule is posted along with the course listings for class registration the previous semester/quarter. Plus, I have a hard time believing she went to every class because in four years of undergrad work, the finals date/time is mentioned at least 5-10 times before the actual final and even more if there is a discussion class for that course as well.

That being said, reschedule the ticket and pay the $100 fine and take the final. . . . not worth failing a class and spending more time retaking it down the road.

Yes, I posted the same thing. You gotta take the final, even if it costs you a few hundred bucks. Unfortunately no progress seems to have been made today and the flight is tomorrow.

 

[RbSX]

My professor made a mistake like this on Monday, myself and the other person went to see the associate dean immediately after when the exam was supposed to be.

If she didn't delete the email, she should be okay. Either way the prof or the ITS server probably has a copy of hte professors response.

 

[BoomerD]

My school revised the finals schedule in the middle of the semester. Doesn't bother me much either way since I live in the same town and the semester ending date is always known well in advance.

Sounds like a combination of mis-information by the professor and poor planning and fact-checking by the student. (since non-refundable tickets are USUALLY advance-purchase, she should have had plenty of time to confirm the day of the finals)

 

[HardcoreRobot]

there is no way you are gonna get them to pay. the prof made a mistake, and there is proof. ask the prof for an alternate solution (do the exam after the trip, take home exam to be returned via email, waive the exam etc.) If prof does not cooperate, dean will have your back.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
there is no way you are gonna get them to pay. the prof made a mistake, and there is proof. ask the prof for an alternate solution (do the exam after the trip, take home exam to be returned via email, waive the exam etc.) If prof does not cooperate, dean will have your back.

:thumbsup:

At best she'll get out of this with the ability to take the exam early or late. Either way that sucks though because the professor will have to change the exam.

 

[imported_Imp]

Professor screwed up. I'd have failed most of my courses if I listened to what my professor said about when the exam was. Most of the time they said "I think it's Monday, around 2pm, can someone help me out, 2pm or 9am?". All exam schedules were posted 3-4 weeks before the exams started, and there was a clear notice/waiver that said that dates are subject to change, so keep checking.

I once missed an exam during the first semester of my first year. Scared the hell out of me, and I ended up having to petition the registrar to get them to 'assess' my grade. I had an 80 before exams, dropped down to 73. Fair enough.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Doesn't her university post online when finals are for all the courses? My school does it by when your class took place during a normal class week. So, the prof can't move it, unless they do it during normal class time. There are a few courses that don't fit this schedule (big courses with unified finals) and they post this online as well.

Here's mine:
http://www.reg.msu.edu/ROInfo/...ndar/FinalExamFS08.asp